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Planned Parenthood Targeted By Pro-Life Scam Artists (Again)

In recent weeks people who oppose Planned Parenthood have been conducting a secret, nationwide hoax campaign in an attempt to undermine women’s access to services. www.rhrealitycheck.org Live Action, the wrongdoer in this case: liveaction.org Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com

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Aid Charade: UK wants ‘peanuts’ back

A nuclear power with its own space program receiving humanitarian aid from London. But as the Indian economy gears up to overtake Britain, many in the UK say they should no longer pour money into one of world’s fastest growing countries. Clamor in Britain is growing to slash the $440 million Britain gives to India [...]

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Quake’s impact rattles Haiti two years on

Haitians are marking the second anniversary of the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake with public memorial services across Haiti. The government has said that the disaster killed 316000 people and displaced another 1.5 million. More than 500000 people are still living in temporary settlement camps since the quake occurred. The country continues to struggle to recover [...]

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American smile in Russia: Dental care cutting wisdom teeth

The challenge of doing business in Russia is to grow your business as fast as the demand grows, says Robert Courtney, Senior Executive Director at Retail Profile Russia. He came to the country in the ’90s to open an American-style dental clinic. Courtney remembers that back then, the business environment left plenty of scope to [...]

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‘Academi’ of War: Blackwater back in Iraq for a little greenback

With US forces packing up and leaving – Iraq, devasted by almost a decade of war, is looking at an uncertain future. And that offers a profitable opportunity for the world’s most infamous mercenary company – Blackwater. Now rebranded ‘Academi’ – and with an unsullied new leadership – it’s hoping to bury its bloody past [...]

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‘No credence in Blackwater revival’

As US troops prepare to leave Iraq, thousands of contractors are moving in to make a buck in the country devastated by war. And one of them is the world’s most infamous mercenary company, formerly known as Blackwater. The firm was once banned from Iraq over allegations of indiscriminate shooting of civilians but now it’s [...]

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Why Obama’s ‘Plan B’ Decision Is Wrong

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has stunned the women’s health community by halting the implementation of over-the-counter sales of the Plan B morning after emergency contraceptive pill to girls under the age of 17. Now, President Obama has come out saying that – as a father of two girls – he supports Sebelius’ [...]

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Kid Taken From Parents For Being Too Fat!?!

An eight year old boy in Ohio is fat. But not just fat, the poor kid is really obese, weighing in at a whopping 200 pounds. So, for the first time in the history of the state, the Department of Children and Family Services took a child from his parents, insisting that he was being [...]

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Ohio takes child from parents for being too fat

An eight year old boy in Ohio is fat. But not just fat, the poor kid is really obese, weighing in at a whopping 200 pounds. So, for the first time in the history of the state, the Department of Children and Family Services took a child from his parents, insisting that he was being [...]

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Cheat Happens: Senate hopeful in US – hobo in Ukraine

He once ran for high office in a race to be a state governor in the US But an American man who went to Ukraine looking for love, found only destitution – ending up homeless, with no money, or means of contacting family back home. RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky takes up the story of a foreign [...]

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Walls Have Ears: ’20% of Syrians said to be in secret service’

The world waits for Syria’s response to the Arab League’s demands to pull tanks off the streets and start a dialogue with the opposition. Earlier Syrian President Assad said he would only talk to parties that have no links with foreign powers, or what he called, terrorism. Some 3000 people have already been killed since [...]

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Why Wall Street’s Imploding, and Main Street’s Improving

Complete video at: fora.tv James Suroweicki discusses a “dramatic difference” between service industries where principal-agent conflicts are pervasive, and industries focussed on manufactured goods. In the former, Surowiecki notes, agents are becoming extremely wealthy; in the latter, consumers are “spending less and getting more.” —– JAMES SUROWIECKI: OUT OF CONTROL: PLAYING WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY [...]

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